Just this morning, North updated the campaign by asking "Will we reach the $500k threshold at which I explode?" before mentioning that, thanks to the amount of money raised, he would be donated 400 books to schools, universities and libraries across the globe who had requested copies of the finished product. In an interview on Wired.com, he explained the reasoning behind doing so:

If you've ever struggled with people's motivations in the play, I think everything becomes a lot more clear when you're the person making those choices. So in that way, yes, it's educational! But you can also decide just to cut off people's faces and throw them into the ocean, so in that way, probably you're better off just reading Wikipedia.

17 hours to go before the campaign finishes, and it's already reached the point where North has exploded. Just how much more money will the project raise before the end, and will North's ghost be able to meet his deadlines without having corporeal fingers with which to type? Stay tuned.